personal You Should Read Corpses, Fools and Monsters And yes, despite all of this, trans and queer people have made art the entire time. They have made it with such relentlessness that despite decades of brutal repression and state censorship, two people were able to write a book about it. That alone cheers me up.
tennessee williams What Does Any Of This Have To Do With Tennessee Williams? It feels facile to say I feel a kinship with a writer like Tennessee Williams; it’s like a flashlight claiming the same common heritage as the moon. And yet I felt I understood.
personal You Can Teach Yourself to Shave The first step of shaving your face is realizing that you are now the kind of man who needs to shave his face, and you have no clue how to go about that.
the people's joker Flaming Beautiful Failure (THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, 2022) I am still doing this because I want to be the person I am right now more than I want my own teeth. If you’ve never had your heart beat like this, if you’ve never been so sure you’re willing to die for it, if you’ve never wanted something this badly? I feel sorry for you.
apocalypse from now on Linda/Les and Annie and Me (LINDA/LES AND ANNIE, 1989) LINDA/LES AND ANNIE is a messy handjob from the past, jagged with static and studded with mistakes. It still touched me. Burn us out of the archives, we'll find each other in pornography. I've never been so proud to be trans.
apocalypse from now on OK, But Why Does He Sleep In There? (The Tillenghast Question, Part 2) If you think Cronenberg movies are accidentally queer, wait till you see Ken Foree under the influence of intergalactic sex pollen, jello-wrestling a giant goopworm in tiny orange undies.
apocalypse from now on Featured You Should Watch Gay Porn in a Theater (LA PLAYS ITSELF, 1972) Watching vintage gay porn with a modern queer audience is a distinct communal experience, a rejection of social prudishness and an opportunity to champion queer artists that a polite society demands we discard.
apocalypse from now on Falling in Love at The End of The World Some might say these things don’t matter in the face of an apocalypse. But they are the only things that matter. We both live like people who know that, in a world of people who act like they don’t. It’s one of the things I love about you the most.
apocalypse from now on Cockroaches, Sex Education and the Queer Apocalypse Given this lens, it's hard not to see our current political and social landscape as a rhetorical post-nuclear apocalypse for us nasty queer mutants. And yet, we persist, and yet, we remain. The cockroaches of our own apocalypse.
apocalypse from now on Boys Beware! (The Tillinghast Question, Part 1) There’s a reason that a certain strain of queer nerd gets overly attached to horror movies. Schlocky 80s gross-out movies are gay comfort food for me. I prefer to linger in their gooey clutches. It makes me feel normal.
apocalypse from now on I can't do it today. It's not that I have nothing to share. I'm sitting on gigs of butt photos (no pun intended). I have scrap playful humor pieces that you might enjoy. I even have a post about HEAVENLY CREATURES that is one fact-check away from sunlight. You will be
apocalypse from now on Harm Cox is Going to Survive the Apocalypse Harm did not anticipate that they would be pointed towards a burning library while trying to research their survival. We'll just have to figure it out together, alright?
movies The Exquisite Corpse (BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, 1991) If I died tomorrow, my body would most likely be treated as a “female” body. That doesn’t make me a woman. My body makes everyone who calls me a woman incorrect.
